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The proposition that people tend to be attracted to others who have complementary needs to their own, a person with a high need for dominance, for example, being attracted to a person with a high need for submission, and vice versa. Despite its superficial plausibility, the theory has received only weak and inconsistent empirical support. Also called the complementarity hypothesis. Compare attitude similarity hypothesis.